Do Political Campaigns Matter?: Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums

by David M. Farrell (Editor), Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (Editor)

Overview

This book, in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take of the state of this sub-discipline. The individual chapters present the most recent studies on campaign effects in North America, Europe and Australasia. As a whole, the book provides a cross-national assessment of the theme of political campaigns and their consequences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134520411
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Series:	Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

David M. Farrell, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Studying political campaigns and their effects, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, David M. Farrell; Chapter 2 Calculating or capricious?, Ian McAllister; Chapter 3 When do election campaigns matter, and to whom?, Romain Lachat, Pascal Sciarini; Chapter 4 Campaign effects and media monopoly, Marina Popescu, Gábor Tóka; Chapter 5 Priming and campaign context, Elisabeth Gidengil, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, Richard Nadeau; Chapter 6 Candidate-centred campaigns and their effects in an open list system, Ilkka Ruostetsaari, Mikko Mattila; Chapter 7 Post-Fordism in the constituencies?, David Denver, Gordon Hands; Chapter 8 Do campaign communications matter for civic engagement?, Pippa Norris; Chapter 9 Referendums and elections, Lawrence LeDuc; Chapter 10 Public opinion formation in Swiss federal referendums, Michael Bützer, Lionel Marquis; Chapter 11 Do political campaigns matter?, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, David M. Farrell;